Also, have a look at pgrep. You can probably write that command without a
pipe using pgrep.
On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 12:40:14 AM UTC+10, fanvalt wrote:
>
> ok thank you,
>
> I will try to find a way to use the when condition then.
>
> Le mardi 24 mai 2016 16:33:38 UTC+2, Kai Stian Olstad a écrit :
>>
>> On 24. mai 2016 12:50, fanvalt wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I want to check if a process to run on my server by using the ps
>> command:
>> > - name: Test if openhr runs
>> > shell: ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep {{ ansible_user }} | grep
>> dispatcher
>> > | grep {{ rep_user }}/{{ openhrname }}/bin
>> > register: procopenhr
>> >
>> > I receive the following error message, I cannot figure out what's wrong
>> > with my command:
>> >
>> > TASK [openhr : Test if openhr runs]
>> > ******************************************
>> > fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": "ps -ef | grep
>> -v
>> > grep | grep fval | grep dispatcher | grep home/fval/openhr/bin",
>> "delta":
>> > "0:00:00.011877", "end": "2016-05-24 12:36:58.184606", "failed": true,
>> > "rc": 1, "start": "2016-05-24 12:36:58.172729", "stderr": "", "stdout":
>> "",
>> > "stdout_lines": [], "warnings": []}
>> >
>> > I tried with quoting the last grep, without success: "grep {{ rep_user
>> > }}/{{ openhrname }}/bin"
>> >
>> > What is wrong ?
>>
>> When grep doesn't find the string it will exit with 1.
>> Ansible threat this("rc": 1) as a failure, you can change this behaviour
>> with ignore_errors, failed_when or changed_when depending of what you
>> try to achieve.
>>
>> You can read more about it here:
>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_error_handling.html
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kai Stian Olstad
>>
>>
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